"Slant6" (slant-6)
07/12/2019 at 20:58 • Filed to: None
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"Slant6" (slant-6)
07/12/2019 at 20:58 • Filed to: None | 0
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What’s it like compared to a regular trailer? Also bikes on roof rack bad idea or just fine? Excited to start this next chapter of my life. This will be my first time living permanently outside of North Carolina, besides the time when I was born and spent a few months of infanthood in New Jersey.
TheRealBicycleBuck
> Slant6
07/12/2019 at 21:12 |
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It’s about like towing a regular trailer. I’ve used both from U-Haul. A dolly for my truck and a trailer for my WRX. They towed the same. Also, the bikes should be fine.
Pixel
> Slant6
07/12/2019 at 21:18 |
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I have two pieces of advice, both utterly useless.
1) A ‘61 Mercury comet loaded backwards because the rear axle is locked will, despite ratchet strapping the steering wheel to both door handles so tight the doors creeked, will whipsaw back and for so violently at 56mph that it will wag the dog on a GMC G30 diesel van across two lanes of the highway.
2) Remember to retract the loading ramps, or you will carve a pair of furrows in the road from the front of your old apartment until 3 miles down the highway where someone will frantically flag you down because you are spraying sparks everywhere.
XJDano
> Slant6
07/12/2019 at 21:22 |
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Don’t back up.
Alfalfa
> Slant6
07/12/2019 at 21:33 |
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Pretty much the same in my (limited) experience. I feel like the bikes would be fine. Also backing up a tow dolly is ill-advised, so keep that in mind.
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> Slant6
07/12/2019 at 21:34 |
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Yeah I second the don’t back up thing. Just plan ahead. And yeah the bikes will be fine.
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XJDano
> Slant6
07/12/2019 at 21:51 |
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The reason not to back up is the dolly has a pivot point between the trailer tires and the car tires. and then the truck hitch ball has a pivot point, so it’s not like a regular trailer that you can back up and steer, you may get 5’ then the pivots will get wonky and you can’t control the second pivot. And then it’ll jackknife.
You can in a pinch back up some, then you look at it and see why it’s not advised.
This is from memory when I rented them on occasion.
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Slant6
> XJDano
07/12/2019 at 22:07 |
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Ye ah the pivot is a pretty neat feature, I’d imagine the tires would scrub if it didn’t even itself out.
Will avoid backing up at all costs!
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TheRealBicycleBuck
> Slant6
07/12/2019 at 22:51 |
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I see all the warnings not to back up. Thinking about it, I didn’t have a need to back up when I towed my truck. I suppose you shouldn’t try to back up!
GLiddy
> Slant6
07/13/2019 at 01:13 |
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Don’t forget how long a rig you have there. I pulled a 63 Chevy II with a station wagon many years ago and that darned thing seemed like it was 50' long. In reality it wasn’t much shorter than that.
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> Slant6
07/13/2019 at 01:30 |
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They’re fine to use. On the u haul ones, I believe you have to leave the steering unlocked on the towed car to they pivot around corners without scrubbing the rear tires. You can’t back up very far before running into the two pivot point problem, so plan ahead where needed. They have next to no tongue weight, so they open up the option of towing a car behind all sorts of vehicles that wouldn’t otherwise be able to handle the tongue weight of a car on an open trailer.
My bird IS the word
> Slant6
07/13/2019 at 09:24 |
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Great for FWD, not so great for everything else. Drive wheels need to be disconnected if rwd or AWD as the transmission is not properly cooled and you can burn it up, and the steering wheels MUST be on the trailer.
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Slant6
> GLiddy
07/13/2019 at 10:40 |
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No stranger to long loads here.
